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START-Ivry: Form Follows Life
STAR strategies + architecture
A new skyline for Ivry-sur-Seine and the banks of the River Seine. The slenderness of the towers, the modulation of heights and the permeability between volumes provide enhanced views, a multiplicity of orientations, and a rich diversity of housing typologies.
Photo credit:
Nicolas Grosmond
START-Ivry: Form Follows Life
STAR strategies + architecture
Narrative façades: window jambs follow a colour code reflecting the interior functions, while the colours of the loggias highlight the different parts of the tower.
Photo credit:
Nicolas Grosmond
START-Ivry: Form Follows Life
STAR strategies + architecture
With a footprint of 13.5 x 16.5 metres, the social housing tower is the tallest and most slender of the five buildings.
Photo credit:
Kamel Khalfi
START-Ivry: Form Follows Life
STAR strategies + architecture
The façades convey the richness and diversity of the interior typologies.
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Nicolas Trouillard
START-Ivry: Form Follows Life
STAR strategies + architecture
Each tower is structured in three distinct parts, creating three vertical readings to support its integration into three different contexts: the street, the city, and the sky.
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Nicolas Grosmond
START-Ivry: Form Follows Life
STAR strategies + architecture
The façades follow a “narrative” logic, reflecting interior functions while integrating into the landscape and urban context.
Photo credit:
Kamel Khalfi
START-Ivry: Form Follows Life
STAR strategies + architecture
The main facade treatments — raw concrete and red paint — echo the architectural history of Ivry, particularly its emblematic concrete and brick buildings.
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Nicolas Grosmond
START-Ivry: Form Follows Life
STAR strategies + architecture
A densely programmed ground floor. The town villas and the commercial spaces face the two newly created pedestrian alleys.
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Nicolas Grosmond
START-Ivry: Form Follows Life
STAR strategies + architecture
The common spaces and their turquoise common terraces, are located on the 7th floor.
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STAR strategies + architecture
START-Ivry: Form Follows Life
STAR strategies + architecture
The common spaces and their turquoise terraces articulate the scale of the towers and create a horizontal reading of the volumes.
Photo credit:
Nicolas Grosmond
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START-Ivry: Form Follows Life
STAR strategies + architecture
START offers twelve distinct common terraces distributed across several levels.
Photo credit:
Vladimir Partalo
START-Ivry: Form Follows Life
STAR strategies + architecture
The light-blue loggias mark the meeting point with the sky.
Photo credit:
Vladimir Partalo
START-Ivry: Form Follows Life
STAR strategies + architecture
View from a Plug balcony in Tower 2 towards Tower 5, with the River Seine on the left.
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Vladimir Partalo
START-Ivry: Form Follows Life
STAR strategies + architecture
Inside a Plug (closable balcony) – view towards the River Seine.
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Vladimir Partalo
START-Ivry: Form Follows Life
STAR strategies + architecture
The 10 Adaptability Principles by STAR.
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STAR strategies + architecture
START-Ivry: Form Follows Life
STAR strategies + architecture
The 8 Quality Principles by STAR.
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STAR strategies + architecture
START-Ivry: Form Follows Life
STAR strategies + architecture
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STAR strategies + architecture
START-Ivry: Form Follows Life
STAR strategies + architecture
START – Adaptability principle I: Large divisible dwelling (≥ 3 bedrooms).
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STAR strategies + architecture
START-Ivry: Form Follows Life
STAR strategies + architecture
START – Adaptability principle II: Super-adaptable dwelling (two bedrooms).
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STAR strategies + architecture
START-Ivry: Form Follows Life
STAR strategies + architecture
START interior views: apartments with double (88 %) and triple orientation (26 %), modular living rooms, private terraces, and spatial richness — qualities derived from STAR’s Housing Principles.
Photo credit:
Nicolas Grosmond, Vladimir Partalo
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